can a $25 microphone be any good for your filmmaking we'll find out in
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hey there welcome to the channel i'm mark brown from editors keys
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all about that now i'm a big fan of a company called ulanzi i've purchased a
lot of their products myself from amazon and
they do a lot of iphone holders and adapters now we've
never been sponsored by the company at all
it's just a company that i think makes good budget friendly
products for holding things like iphones onto tripods that kind of stuff
now they recently reached out to me and they told me about this microphone
they've made this is the sarin vmq one
mini shotgun microphone now as you can see it does look very very similar
to a rode competitor uh i'm not gonna go on about that too much but what struck
me most about this was the price they have this on amazon for 25 pounds
here in the uk and about 25 in the usa
now at the time i was actually looking for a little microphone
for my sony zv1 this is just the camera i take with me on the go if i'm doing
some travels that kind of thing and the inbuilt microphone on this
camera if you've watched this channel is actually very very good
but i just wanted to up a little bit i didn't want to put a video mic
pro on the camera which is what i'm using now because it just makes it too
big so this is only two centimeters by seven
centimeters and weighs 68 grams so my test today
is to see how this compares to the built-in microphone
and the rode videomic pro so what i'm going to do now is switch
over to the sony zv1 okay so we're now on the
sony zv1 and the audio you're listening to right now
is the inbuilt microphone on the sony zv one and you know what i've been pretty
impressed for an inbuilt microphone on a camera of this
size i actually think it's quite usable it sounds quite good um indoors and they
include this little muffler as well so if you go outdoors
it reduces that wind noise but right now i'm going to switch
to the sarin microphone and we'll see what the difference sounds like
okay we are now using the sarin q1 microphone
i haven't made any changes or edited this audio at
all this is just the raw audio quality coming from the
sarin microphone how does it sound compared to the
inbuilt microphone of the zv1 i'm just going to keep talking so you can hear
that audio quality let me know in the comments what you
think of this next just for fun i'm going to compare it
against our 200 pounds which is about about 200
rode videomic pro so of course when you get a microphone that's that much more
expensive it should be loads loads better but we'll see how it
sounds compared to the rode video mic pro okay so test number
three this is the rode videomic pro and of
course this should sound a lot lot better than a 25 microphone
because it costs around 200 pounds as i've mentioned but what do
you think of the audio quality have you heard a big jump between
the in-built microphone to the same to now the rode videomic
pro i just wanted to do this test it's not very scientific but it just shows
you what sound you would get if you're doing
something like i'm doing now where you're just in
an office a studio or a bedroom talking to
camera have a little rewind listen back again see what you think
and now we're gonna do some outdoor tests okay so this is a quick audio test
with the sony zv1 built-in microphone what i'm
going to do is just walk and talk for a second
we've got the included dead cap on the zv1
at the moment how is the sound quality in a second i'm going to switch
to the sarin microphone okay so we have now switched to the
sarin microphone i've put this on the sony zv1
and i'm using the included dead cat so how does it sound i'm just trying to
move around a little bit so we can try and capture some of that
wind if i move quite quickly but in your opinion how does the audio
quality sound compared to that inbuilt microphone
for 25 do you get a big bang for your buck or not
now because they include a phone adapter in the box
i thought i would try it out with the iphone so what you're listening to now
is the built-in audio coming directly from an iphone 12 mini
now just a word of advice to actually plug this into the lightning port you
will need the apple headphone to lightning adapter but i'm
going to plug that in now and we can see how it sounds
with this mic okay so we have now switched to the
sarin shotgun microphone what do you think of the audio quality of this
microphone compared to that of the built-in iphone 12 audio does it
sound better does it sound worse is there noise let
me know in the comment section below i mean i think you know it's really
worth looking at your audio if you do do any kind of youtube work or any kind of
filmmaking the iphone 12 is so good now that you
can get some really good video out of it and really it's only the
audio that lets you down so if you compare the iphone with a
great microphone you could get some great content
straight out of your phone so there we go what did you think of those sound
samples this is the great thing i like about
doing a review of a microphone is that you can actually hear for yourself you
don't need me to tell you if it's good or bad you can make up your
own mind so let me know in the comments section below
would you spend 25 on this do you think it sounded any good
or would you save your money for a more expensive microphone i actually think
for the money it's pretty good but let me know in the comment section below
and keep a check on the channel because we've got more reviews coming
very soon